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Eremias andersoni Darevsky & Szczerbak 1978

Description

Eremias andersoni Darevsky & Szczerbak, 1978

HOLOTYPE. MMTT 1671.

TYPE LOCALITY. 40–45 km E of Darja-i Nimek [= Daryacheh-ye Namak] lake (34°30' N, 52°40' E), Dasht-e Kavir, Semnan Prov., Iran.

DISTRIBUTION. Endemic to Iran.

DISTRIBUTION IN IRAN. Fig. 90. Known only from three localities in the western Dasht-e Kavir desert, Semnan Prov.

HABITAT. Sandy areas in a stony desert with shrubby vegetation. They can climb well on shrubs.

REFERENCES. Darevsky & Szczerbak (1978); Anderson (1999, 2000).

Notes

Published as part of Šmíd, Jiří, Moravec, Jiří, Kodym, Petr, Kratochvíl, Lukáš, Yousefkhani, Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian, Rastegar-Pouyani, Eskandar & Frynta, Daniel, 2014, Annotated checklist and distribution of the lizards of Iran, pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 3855 (1) on page 32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3855.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4929701

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References

  • Darevsky, I. S. & Szczerbak, N. N. (1978) Eremias andersoni, a new lizard from Iran. Journal of Herpetology, 12, 13 - 15. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.2307 / 1563496
  • Anderson, S. C. (1999) The lizards of Iran. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Oxford, Ohio, 442 pp.
  • Anderson, S. C. (2000) Preliminary observations and comments on syntopic occurrence of lizards in Iran. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 7, 236 - 238.